What is "decoupler"

Usage examples of "decoupler".

Hub is the Spin Decoupler system which connects the Hub to the Main Spindle.

Her senses told her that she was stationary while Detroit and the rest of South Spindle were turning along with the background of stars, but she knew that in reality it was she and the part of Janus that lay north of the Spin Decoupler that were turning at a little under one revolution every minute.

If that Decoupler ever locked up, the Rim and Hub would wrench itself clean off.

An instant later the whole center portion of the Decoupler ring disappeared in a blaze of whiteness.

The Decoupler ring moved under the cross hairs and stopped rock-steady at dead center.

Hub and Detroit, at a point exactly where the line of the Spin Decoupler would be.

Sleeve was a cylindrical recess located at the axis of the southern part of the Spindle, into which a rotating extension of north Spindle projected through the Decoupler disk.

And all up one side of the hole, the unbroken wall of the southern half of the Decoupler slid endlessly by.

As she stepped carefully up to stand behind him, she had to make an effort to thrust out of her mind the images that were trying to form of a writhing body being mashed into pulp between the relentless jagged scissor edges gouged in the Decoupler disks.

But the conduit to carry the connections was installed somewhere just inside the south Decoupler disk.

After some searching around, Dyer recognized a gallery that led to the area where the Decoupler computers were situated and near which the branch conduit from the main shaft terminated.

But the shaft goes outward just south of the Decoupler, It might be quieter near the edge.

Chris gave in, and they entered the shaft and began moving outward along the inside face of the south disk of the Decoupler, They had lost track of distance when they came to a point where the shaft was blocked by some unidentifiable machinery that looked as if it had been installed by Spartacus.

Immediately after that, an onset of huge vibrations had taken place as the condition of the Decoupler escalated to a whole new level of complexity.

They created a schematic diagram of Janus, emphasizing the dynamics of the Decoupler, and sent that in as well.